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    Alibaba’s AI Beats Humans in Reading Test

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    Artificial Intelligence will expand by leaps and bounds this year as more and more companies embrace it. Well, one of the biggest e-commerce in the world-Alibaba-has already taken the initiative and has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test.

    Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. put its deep neural network model to work by asking the AI to provide exact answers to more than 100,000 questions comprising a quiz that’s considered one of the world’s most authoritative machine-reading gauges. The model developed by Alibaba’s Institute of Data Science of Technologies scored 82.44, edging past the 82.304 that rival humans achieved.

    The model mimics human comprehension of words and sentences. Based on more than 500 Wikipedia articles, Stanford’s set of questions are designed to tease out whether machine-learning models can process large amounts of information before supplying precise answers to queries.
    Luo Si, chief scientist for natural language processing at the Alibaba institute said in a statement: “That means objective questions such as ‘what causes rain’ can now be answered with high accuracy by machines. The technology underneath can be gradually applied to numerous applications such as customer service, museum tutorials and online responses to medical inquiries from patients, decreasing the need for human input in an unprecedented way.”

    The Chinese e-commerce firm has joined the likes of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc. in a race to develop AI.  This is in line with the ambition of China to become the industry leader in AI by 2030.

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